Udacity
Is This Your Business?Author: Kalicia Bateman
E-learning company Udacity, founded in 2011, offers tech courses within data science, artificial intelligence, programming, autonomous systems, cloud computing, and business. Udacity also partners with Georgia Tech to offer a master’s degree in Computer Science.
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The Good
- Self-Paced Learning
- Project-Based
- Extensive Course Inventory
Self-Paced Learning
Udacity’s training programs are 100 percent online and are self-paced, meaning students can proceed through the courses on their own time at the pace that works for them. Most programs take 3-4 months to finish if you spend 5-10 hours per week on the course.
Project-Based
Udacity’s courses center around projects with real-life applications. This approach demands active learning and best prepares students for future jobs.
Extensive Course Inventory
The massive course inventory includes the following tech-centered courses:
Data Science
- Data Analyst
- Data Engineer
- Data Scientist
- Data Streaming
- Predictive Analytics for Business
- Programming for Data Science with Python
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Business Analytics
- Programming for Data Science with R
- Data Visualization
- Marketing Analyst
Artificial Intelligence
- AI for Business Leaders
- Intro to Machine Learning with PyTorch
- Intro to Machine Learning with TensorFlow
- AI Product Manager
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Deep Learning
- Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Computer Vision
- AI Programming with Python
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- AI for Trading
- Natural Language Processing
Programming
- Cloud DevOps Engineer
- Front End Web Developer
- Intro to Programming
- React
- Full Stack Web Developer
- Data Engineer
- Android Basics
- Android Developer
- Cloud Developer
- C++Blockchain
- iOS Developer
Autonomous Systems
- Robotics Software Engineer
- Self Driving Car Engineer
- Intro to Self Driving Cars
- Sensor Fusion Engineer
- Flying Car and Autonomous Flight Engineer
Business
- Product Manager
- UX Designer
- Digital Marketing
- AI Product Manager
- Predictive Analytics for Business
- Business Analytics
- Marketing Analyst
- Data Visualization
The Bad
- No Lifelong Access
No Lifelong Access
While your career certificate stays with you forever, you only have access to program content for 12 months after the end of the last billing cycle for your course. In other career certificate programs, you get lifetime access to the educational materials.
The Bottom Line
Udacity should definitely be a contender in your search for tech certificates based on the training inventory and the self-paced and project-based learning model. And as a perk, it’s not unusual for the company to have promotions for a free trial and/or discounted courses.
